"I work every day in this job, as I like to put it, to turn the elephant. Now, I don't know if you ever had to turn an elephant, but the end you have to start with is not necessarily the best place to start."
—RNC Chairman Michael Steele, describing his attempts to make amends between the Republican Party and the black community.
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